'Okay, What kind of weird world, did I sneeze myself into? Why is everyone dressed in Slytherin uniforms?' Alexis thought as she backed up very slowly to the doors of the Great Hall. She felt that her magic was limited in whatever world this was, so she thought of someplace that was safe enough P3, and flamed out.
"Oh, major sneeze. Hey, who turned out the lights? And the heat?" Paige's voice asks, Alexis jumps in surprise, The door falls off its hinges and crashes to the floor. Paige looks out to an abandoned room where P3 once was. There is rubbish all over the floor and overturned furniture. She walks through the filthy room and shivers. She spots the P3 sign, broken and lying on the floor.
"I'm not the only one who sneezed herself into a different world?" Alexis asks as Paige turns around,
"Alexis? Why aren't you in school?" Paige asks,
"Caught a cold and somehow flamed myself in a different Hogwarts," Alexis answers, "And I was about three seconds away from having one of the Unforgivable Curses casted at me."
Paige and Alexis continues to walk around the room, stepping over rubbish.
"Leo! Leo!" Paige shouts,A pile of rubbish rustles and a homeless person climbs out from under it. Paige jumps. "Oh, god, you scared me."
"Who are you? Wh-what are you doing here?" the homeless person asks
"I could ask you the same thing." Alexis replies, then the homeless guy pulls out a knife and points it at Paige. "Hey, it's o-okay."
"This is my crib!" the homeless guy shouts,
"Your crib? This is my sisters' club. Knife! Knife!" Paige tries to summon the knife but nothing happens. "What the hell is wrong with my powers?" The bum attacks Paige and she flips him onto the ground. Frightened, he gets up and runs out of the club. "Leo!"
Leo orbs in and looks around.
"Damn it, where the hell have you been?" Paige asks
"Who are you?" Leo asks, then takes a good look at Alexis, his eyes widen in shock, "Alexis, you're alive."
Alexis blinked, "Yeah,"
"Are you kidding? You're not kidding. It's me, Paige, your sister in-law." Paigeasks
"Look, I don't know who you are, lady, and I don't have time for games. All hell is breaking loose out there, so if you don't mind..." Leo replies, "And I have no idea how you're back from the dead, Alexis."
"Have you lost your mind? Do you notice anything different?" Alexis asks, "And I never died, I have no idea what is going on here,"
"No, not really. So if you'll excuse me." Leo replies, He starts to orb out.
"Wait." Paige calls,Leo orbs back in. "Uh, I'm your charge too. How else could you have heard my call?" Leo realizes she's right. "Thank you. I just don't understand how all this could've happened."
Alexis stays silent trying to figure out how she could have died in this messed up world, when she was clearly alive. Letting Paige take charge.
"How what could've happened?" Leo asks
"This! Piper's club. It's totaled. Doesn't that strike you as the least bit odd?" Paige asks
"You know Piper?" Leo asks
"Of course. Leo, the club." Paige answers,
"What about it? It's been like this for over a year. Ever since Piper walked away from it, right after Prue and Alexis died." Leo explains,
"That is not true. The club is kicking ass. Michelle Branch was just playing here and I sneezed and then I or... orbed out. Maybe if I sneeze again." Paige states, She sneezes. "Did I orb?"
"Nope, which means, my powers are weakening because of the Power of Four not being together," Alexis realized,
"How do you know about orbing? And Piper?" Leo asks,
"Just take us to her. She'll figure all this out, she always does. Please. What have you got to lose?" Paigeasks
They take both of Leo's hands and they orb out.
Some where outside where there are overturned cars, tires, and barrels with fires inside. A dead body lays on the ground. Up on a hill, Leo, Paige, and Alexis orb in behind a large mound of dirt.
"What are we doing here?" Paige asks,
"Not a good place at all," Alexis stated.
"Shh, Piper's hunting." Leo answers,
A Lazarus Demon smokes in beside the body. He kneels down and smells the body.
"Hey!" Piper exclaims as she stands up on a large crate near by. She is wearing black, tight leather clothes, and is not pregnant. She freezes the Lazarus Demon and jumps down onto the ground. "Feeding time, huh?" She unfreezes just his head. "Knew you'd take the bait."
"What'd you do to me? Unfreeze me, witch." Lazarus Demon demanded,
"Sure, no problem. Just as soon as you tell me where I can find Shax." Piper replies,
Behind the mound of dirt.
"Shax? What's she talking about?" Paige asks
"We vanquished him already." Alexis finishes, before looking at Leo.
Nobody's vanquished Shax. Ever since he killed Prue and Alexis, Piper's been obsessed with getting revenge on him." Leo explains,
'In this reality, I was killed by Shax along with Prue? This is way to weird.' Alexis thought
Down below.
"Go to hell." Lazarus Demon spats
"I'm already there." Piper replies, then blows up the Lazarus Demon and turns him into a pile of dust. She turns to leave. Paige and Alexis runs down the hill. Leo follows.
"Wait!" both Alexis and Paige shout
Piper turns around and gets ready to blow her up, then freezes when she sees Alexis,
"Piper, don't!" Leo exclaims,
"Oh my god, you're not pregnant anymore." Paige states in disbelief
"Nice outfit, I got to remember get me one of those." Alexis comments,
"Who are you? Leo, what are you doing here?" Piper asks "And how are you alive, Lexi?"
"don't know," Alexis shrugs,
"It's me, your sister, Paige." Paige replies,
"Look, if this is some lame attempt from the Elders to try and lure me back, you can forget it. Tell them to shove it because I have no loyalties to them anymore, and I don't have any to you." Piper states, "Alexis is dead and I don't who that is but she's not my sister."
"Hey! That's no way to speak to your husband." Paigescolded
"We're divorced. Have been for a while." Leoexplains,
"Okay, what bizarre world have we sneezed we way into? You two are married and you're expecting, a magical child no less. And you, you're not La Femme Nikita. You're a Charmed One. You don't mind kicking ass when you have to, but otherwise, you'd rather be hanging out with your sisters, baking cookies or knitting booties." Paige replies,
"And I'm not dead, I just started my fifth year at Hogwarts, which by the way this bizarre world is nothing but Slytherins." Alexis adds
"Knitting booties? Clearly you don't know me at all." Piper replies with a laugh
"Oh, yeah? Well, how come I know you didn't really vanquish the Lazarus demon?" Paige asks
"What are you talking about?" Piper asks
"As a breed, they resurrect. The only way to keep their remains down is to bury them in a cemetery." Paige replies, and Alexis nods,Piper starts to walk off. "Please, stay."
The pile of dust on the ground resurrects into the Lazarus Demon.
"Piper!" Leoshouts as the Lazarus Demon picks up a long pipe and throws it at Piper. She ducks and blows him up. "How did you know that was gonna happen?"
"Because we've fought him before in the real world." Alexis replies
"What do you mean we?" Piper asks
"We. Me, you, Lexi, Phoebe. Your sisters. Oh, god, this is getting me no where. Just orb me to Phoebe." Paige replies,
"I can't go to the manor anymore, it's forbidden." Leo replies,
"What? Fine, I'll do it myself. But when I fix this, you owe me." Paige states, She storms off.
Alexis looks between Paige and her Piper's alternative reality twin,
"Just go check with the Elders, to prove our story is true, Piper I suggest you find a cemetery " Alexis stated before turning on her heel, "Paige, wait up!"
Alexis and Paige went to the manor, there were demons everywhere, they spot Phoebe and walked though the crowd after her. Into the kitchen,
"Phoebe." Paige greets,Phoebe quickly puts out the cigarette and coughs. She turns to Paige, and her eyes widen at the sight of one of her dead sisters "You don't recognize me. That's okay, Piper didn't either."
"yeah, yeah, what are you doing back from the dead," Alexis stated rolling her eyes.
"Piper? You know Piper? How is she?" Phoebeasks
"She's, uh, different. Look, We don't have a lot of time so I'm just gonna drop this on you. I am your long lost sister Paige. I know, it sounds crazy but it's true. We're all sisters in the real world." Paige explains
"Guards!" Phoebe shouts,
"Look, I don't know how he did it, but Cole somehow switched realities in his twisted attempt to get you back. We somehow slipped through the cracks and landed here, I don't know how either. But I need your help in order to turn things back to the way they're supposed to be." Paige explains,
Darryl walks in.
"You called?" Darryl asks emotionlessly
"Darryl, hi." Paige greets,
"Get rid of her." Phoebe orders
Darryl walks over to Paige and Alexis and grabs their arms.
"No, what are you doing?" Paige asks
"What bodyguards do." Phoebe answers
Paige grabs a frying pan and hits Darryl over the head, knocking him out. Phoebe picks up a knife and points it at Paige and Alexis.
"Phoebe, I know you better than you know yourself right now, in your heart of hearts, you know you are not meant to be with Cole. In this other life you are free of him and you're happy." Alexis states, but Darryl wakes up and grabs his gun. Paige and Alexis hears him and runs outside as Darryl fires. Darryl follows.
Outside. Paige and Alexis runs down the driveway with Darryl following.
"Leo! Leo!" Paige calls then trips and rolls down the driveway. Darryl points his gun.
"Leo!" Alexis shouts as she stands in front of Paige.
Leo orbs in. Darryl recognizes Leo. Leo orbs out with Alexis, and Paige, and Darryl shoots.
Leo orbs in with Paige and Alexis in a cemetery.
"Thanks, that was cutting it a little close, don't you think?" Paige asks
"You're lucky I came at all." Leo answers
"I'm lucky? You're lucky. Without us, we're all screwed. We're the only ones who can fix this thing." Paige replies
"Oh, yeah?" Leo asks
"Oh, god, it's just so weird. Cole living at the manor, all those demons we vanquished wandering around alive. Wait a second, if the demons are alive then that means all the innocents we saved are... dead." Alexis gasps,
"Not just the innocents, Lexi." Leo replies
"What are you talking about?" Paige asks then looks around. "What are we doing here?"
Leo turns to a grave marker. Paige looks down. It reads PAIGE MATTHEWS - BORN 1977 DIED 2001.
"After you left, I went and checked with the Elders. They confirmed your story that there was in fact another sister. Only they didn't know until it was too late, until after the Source had already had you killed." Leo explains, "Also it turns out, that our Alexis didn't die, she renounced both sides of magic and left and faked her death, she's living somewhere in eastern Europe, with Carmela who clipped her wings."
"This really sucks." Paige states,
"I agree, I would never do that." Alexis agrees.
"Well, it explains why none of us knew you. We never got a chance to meet you." Leo states,
"So, what, you believe me now?" Paige asks
"I'm not sure what I believe. The fact is you both are here and you're not supposed to be." Leo replies
"Okay, so we've established the fact that I am here, how come I don't have my powers?" Paige asks
"Because you're not living your life anymore. You're living hers. You must have taken over our Paige's life in this reality, or at least, the life she would have lived had she not been killed. Since she never met her sisters..." Leo answers
"The Power of Four never got back together and I never got my powers. Lucky me." Paige finishes
"Luckier than you think maybe. If you hadn't sneezed when you did and orbed and flamed into the neutral plane, nobody would've ever known." Leo explains,
"Cole would've. He's the one behind this. He altered reality to eliminate me and get Phoebe back. But it's not working. She hates him as much in this reality as she does in ours. The problem is she's trapped here." Paige replies
"Your reality sounds a lot better than this one. Not just for Phoebe. So, uh, how can I help you two get it back?" Leo asks
"we need our sisters." Paige answers,
"Well, maybe we can start with three and go from there." Piper's voice spoke up
Paige and Alexis turns to see Piper approaching them.
"What are you doing here?" Paige asks
"Burying the Lazarus Demon. I figured if you were right about that, you were probably right about everything else as well." Piper answers
Paige and Alexis smile.
They got back to P3 to plan out how to get Phoebe back.
"So you say the club is still pretty successful in this alleged other reality of yours?" Piper asks
"Not alleged, it's real, and it's really good." Alexis replies,
"Oh, yeah? Am I a millionaire?" Piper
"No, not that good. Listen, if we wanna get this place back to how it used to be, we really oughta..." Paige answers,
Piper interrupts"How is it that we don't know about you? That we had another sister?"
"Half-sister, apparently." Leo supplies,
"Right. Cliff notes version. Our mum had an affair with her Whitelighter Sam, but because the whole witch-Whitelighter rule thing, they had to give me up at birth. But when the Elders realized they needed me to remake the Charmed Ones, they tossed out that stupid rule. Which as far as I'm concerned, paved the way for you and Leo to be able to keep your baby." Paige explains,
"Well, how pregnant am I exactly?" Piper asks
"Phoebe and I are practicing to be your midwives as we speak. We're preparing for the big home birth." Paige replies
"I've already gotten permission from Professor Dumbledore to go home in February." Alexis adds,
"Home birth? You're nuts. I'd never agree to that. I wouldn't give birth unless it was in..." Piper asks
Paige interrupts "A hospital. Yeah, yeah, you keep saying the same thing in any reality. Hey, who else but a sister would know that?"
"We must be pretty close then, the four of us?" Piperasks "Like Phoebe, Lexi and I were with Prue."
Paige and Alexis nods.
"Yeah, close enough to have avenged Prue's death together." Paige states.
"This Cole of yours must have cast a pretty powerful spell to do all of this. But if we vanquish him, the spell should automatically reverse itself." Piper replies,
"Right, except for we already tried to vanquish him, he's become invincible in our world." Paige replies
"Yes, but we're not in your world, you're in ours, so is he. So if you've assumed our Alexis' and Paige's life, he must've assumed Balthazar's." Leo explains,
"Yeah, he would've." Paige replies,
"Did you guys try to vanquish Belthazar ever?" Piper asks
"No, but you and Prue almost tried. You guys had a vanquishing potion, right?" Paige asks
"How do you know that?" Piper asks
"Book of Shadows. Also says that it needs a piece of his flesh to make it work." Paige answers,
"That's right, it did." Leo agrees
"Alright then." Piper pulls out a knife. "Let's go hunting."
Alexis and Piper managed to get into the house without Leo, or the demons noticing.
"Phoebe, wait." Cole's voice sounds,Piper and Alexis turns the corner and stands in front of Cole. "What are you doing here?"
"Surprised to see me here as well," Alexis growled.
"Saving our sister." Piper answers then uses her power and send him flying backward with a blast. He falls to the floor. "Now!"
Leo orbs in with Paige. Paige is holding the knife.
"You." Cole growls
"Surprise." Paige greets She quickly goes to Cole and slices a piece of flesh of his hand. He yells in pain. Paige moves back to Piper and Cole. Phoebe runs down the hallway.
"Piper." Phoebe whispers as Cole gets up and an energy ball forms in his hand. "No!" She grabs Cole's arm and the energy ball disappears.
"Get us outta here." Piper orders
Leo orbs out with Piper, Alexis, and Paige back to P3. They had gathered potion makings.
"Toadflax, toadflax. Did Leo get the toadflax?" Paige asksPiper hands her some toadflax. "Thank you. And we need a dash of cardamom, a pinch of carrot seeds... Hey, where's the mandrake root already?"
"I'm impressed, you really know this stuff." Piper states
"Of course I do, I learn from the best. I learn from you." Paige replies,
"We both did, I learned not to mix wrong items together," Alexis adds, as she ran her fingers though her purple strips,
Leo orbs in. "Mandrake root."
"Alright, toss it in." Paige replies then Leo puts the mandrake root in the pot. "Alright, now all we need... stand back."
Piper, Alexis, and Leo take a step backward. Paige throws in the flesh and the potion explodes.
"Good memory." Piper states
"Is that it? Is it ready?" Leo asks
"Ready as it'll ever be. Can't guarantee it'll work though." Paige answers,
"Well, we're only gonna get once chance at it. Cole has to know why we needed his flesh. He'll be waiting." Alexis states,
"What about Phoebe?" Leoasks
"We get her out first so that he can't hurt her." Piper replies asPaige bottles the potion. "Ready, sis?"
At the manor. Dining room. Piper, Paige, Alexis and Leo pop their heads around the corner from the kitchen.
"Anything?" Paige asks
"No." Piper replies,
"Okay, come on." Alexis states, They walk into the hall. Phoebe rushes down the stairs.
"What are you guys doing here? You have to leave now." Phoebe asks
"Where's Cole?" Piper asks
Cole walks into the empty parlor. "Right here." He throws an energy ball across the room, hitting Piper, Alexis, Paige and Leo. It knocks them to the floor.
"No!" Phoebe exclaims and runs to their side. Cole flicks his fingers and the potion flies across the room and into his hand. "What did you do to them?"
"Exactly what they were gonna do to me." Cole answers,
Paige reaches over to touch Piper's hand. Alexis takes Paige's other hand
"She's still alive, grab her hand." Paigestates
"What?" Phoebeasks
"I don't know how you got here, Alexis or you Paige. But if it's any consolation, I know exactly where I'm gonna bury you. Right next to yourself." Cole states,
"Grab her hand." Paige orders,
Phoebe touches Piper's hand and a light shines down on them, Alexis glows a bright blue color as well, Cole throws an energy ball at them and it rebounds off the light. The light vanishes and Phoebe, Alexis and Paige stand up.
"The Power of Four." Phoebestates
"That's us. Potion!" The potion orbs into Paige's hand. "I do hate long goodbyes." She goes to throw the potion but Phoebe stops her.
"No!" Phoebe exclaims,She takes the potion off of Paige.
"Phoebe, are you crazy? Throw it before he shimmers out." Alexis asks
"She's not gonna throw it. Are you?" Cole asks
"Throw the potion." Paige replies,
"We've been through so much together, haven't we? Our love's so strong, nothing can destroy it, not even this. We're meant to be together." Cole states,
"I don't think so." Phoebe replies, she throws the potion at Cole and he explodes and is vanquished. Suddenly, the room starts spinning around. The room stops spinning and Paige and Alexis appears. She looks around.
"Oh, please, god, tell me We're back." Paige states
Pregnant Piper walks in wearing her pajamas and holding a tub of ice-cream.
"Oh, there you are. Where'd you orb to?" Piper asks then looks at Alexis, "Why aren't you in school"
"Piper. Are you pregnant?" Paige asks
"Yeah. Where you been?" Piper asks
Paige and Alexis exclaims, "Oh!"
They gives Piper a hug.
"Where have you been? What happened to your clothes?" Piper asks
"Time must have continued moving on in this reality too." Paige states
Alexis' eyes widen, "That means, I'm in trouble." She flames back to Hogwarts, and gets detention from Professor McGonagall for being late to Transfiguration class.
DarkPirestess66: This was Centennial Charmed, so I don't own it.